After lots of searching for builders and house designs we have finalised a house design with Carlisle homes, It is going to be a Sorrento 39 with a rumpus extension and we are excited about our new journey.

Our biggest issue with finalising the house design was we had a tree protection zone in place at front left side of the land so it is basically limiting the width of the house we could build. So we had to choose a house that fit in to narrow block of 12.5m to move the house forward and have decent size backyard.

We also went quite far with Metricon as well hoping to build Glendale 42 LE but at the end it was a hard decision to select one and we choose Sorrento 39 mostly due to reasons of having more backyard.

this is our proposed house siting

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We have done our colour and electrical appointment and yesterday completed the tender as wellWe also did few upgrades/ changes to the standard design. Some of them are

After submitting for the building permit by our builder it didn't get approved first time due to proposed house design eves are encroaching in to the tree protection zone by 30cm. So we had two choices, either to move the house back by another 5 meters ( that would make for 11 meter front setback) or modify the house design a bit to keep the house nearly the same place.

We really needed to have a decent size backyard and do moving house back wasn't really the best option. So we had to modify the design bit to get the building approval.

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Yellow markings are where house design changed, We had shorten the front porch by 45cm and remove the side eves about 4m length on left side after balcony. Balcony section would still have standard size eves so we think it may not look too bad.

Other side we had to push the house to the very end of the boundary so garage needed S flashing for gutters..

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Did the builder ever consider screw piles to a depth beyond the influence of the trees?

Cheers

Mark

Hi Mark,

Yes they have included lots of screw piles in their design. They have recommended 2.3m minimum depth or go deep until 75KN working load is achieved in their design. I believe this is due to soil report came as P class due to soft top fill of the land development. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Share

This is the diagram of proposed slab design with all the black dots are screw piles.

Did the builder ever consider screw piles to a depth beyond the influence of the trees?

Cheers

Mark

Hi Mark,

Yes they have included lots of screw piles in their design. They have recommended 2.3m minimum depth or go deep until 75KN working load is achieved in their design. I believe this is due to soil report came as P class due to soft top fill of the land development. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Share

This is the diagram of proposed slab design with all the black dots are screw piles.

OK, that looks good - ask if you can have the pile installation logs to make sure the piling contractor went down 2.3m - actually if you can spend the time to watch some of the piling being done - it is one of the most important parts of the build

OK, that looks good - ask if you can have the pile installation logs to make sure the piling contractor went down 2.3m - actually if you can spend the time to watch some of the piling being done - it is one of the most important parts of the build

Thanks! I will try to get the pile installation logs from C but so far couldn't get hold of the SS.

Today went to see the construction site to see some screw pile action but it was already done and gone when I arrived. They must have done really quick or start very early considering amount of piles have to screw in to the ground!

Today went to see the construction site to see some screw pile action but it was already done and gone when I arrived. They must have done really quick or start very early considering amount of piles have to screw in to the ground!

I managed to get the screw pile data logs as well. There are totally 48 screw piles all going same depth of 4m with apparently 2 helix design? All record same SWL and Nm. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Share

Looks like we are in sync. Same day site start and today we had drains installed too. Slab pour scheduled next Thursday!

Hi Macher, Oh that is great news! Yes our slab pour is scheduled on next Thursday as well..! I didn't see your build thread until now! Your's going to be really great house! Congrats!! Hoping both out slab pours go according to the plan!

I managed to get the screw pile data logs as well. There are totally 48 screw piles all going same depth of 4m with apparently 2 helix design? All record same SWL and Nm. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Share

Looks good - not sure how you get exactly the same reading on every pile at 4.0m as there will always be a bit of variation - but on the face of it - it looks good.